News: conferences, events and seminars
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Race and Surveillance: A one-day conference, London
Refugee Protection in Restrictive Time: Challenges and ways forward – postgraduate conference, Belfast
Embodied Gender/Sex Identity: What is it and how does it form?, Leeds
The future of Europe after 2020: challenges and expectations, Nottingham: call for papers
Hybrid Data Governance in the Cloud, Oxford
Brexit and Labour Rights under Trade Agreements: Neoliberal populism at work?, London
How to get a PhD in Law: Day Three on researching, disseminating and publishing in the digital world, London
EU Report on Fake News and Online Disinformation: Policy, law, and media responses, London
Are Advertisements Different from News? The legal making of press advertising in Britain, 1850-1914, London
Economic Evidence in Utilities Regulation: Delineating the boundaries of administrative discretion, London
Criminal Law’s Role in Sustaining Civil Peace and Liberal Democracy, London
Law and the Precarious Home: Socio-legal perspectives on the home in insecure times, London
gLAWcal Summer Institute, Beijing, China
Voice through Law: Navigating and negotiating Brexit as a resident EU citizen, London
There’s More to Life … Work-Life Balance, the Value of the Arts, and Well-Being, London
Police use of Body-Worn Cameras and the Prosecution of Domestic Abuse: Policy, practice and research, Leeds
Symposium on Law, Compassion, Dignity, and Vulnerability, London
Removing Safe Spaces: Terrorism, communication and international human rights, Leeds
Legal Education and Training Review: 5 years on, Leeds: 2nd call for papers
Rethinking Legal Education: Lord Upjohn Lecture by Professor William Twining, London
ESRC Festival of Social Science, nationwide: call for applications
The Times and Temporality of International Human Rights Law, Belfast
LSAANZ Annual Conference, Wollongong, Australia: call for papers
Socio-Legal Sources and Methods in Family and Social Welfare Law, London: booking open
Socio-legal Studies/Sociologie du Droit: Methods, traditions, theories in France and the UK, Paris: call for contributions and registration
Socio-Legal Masterclass, Oxford: registration now open
2018
April
Contemporary Challenges to International Law and Policy on Sustainable Development, Energy, Climate Change, Environmental Protection, Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
Dates: 19–21 April 2018
Venue: Masaryk University, Telč, Czech Republic
Organised by gLAWcal (Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development UK), the European Society of International Law Interest Group on International Environmental Law and the American Society of International Law (Interest Group on Intellectual Property Law. Please see website and for details.
Empirical Legal Research Festival
Date: 24 April 2018
Venue: Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh
Organised by the University of Edinburgh’s Empirical Legal Research Network. Please see website for details.
The 21st Session of the UNESCO Chair on Culture and Cyberspace’s Conference Series
Date: 24 April 2018
Venue: University of Tehran, Iran
Please see website for details.
Ecological Regulation: What is needed and what is possible?
Date: 24 April 2018
Venue: Manor Road Social Science Building, University of Oxford.
Speaker: Professor Fiona Haines, University of Melbourne
This is a Regulation Discussion Group event. See attachment for details.
5th Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and Law
Date: 25 April 2018
Venue: Holiday Inn, Winchester
Theme: Public law, politics and the constitution: a new battleground between the law and technology?
Keynote speakers: Micahel Barton, Chief Constable of Durham Constabulary, and Jamie Bartlett, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media for Demos in conjunction with the University of Sussex
Breakout sessions will explore fake news, the use of algorithms in the public sector, infringements over the internet and other issues. The conference will include the launch of the University of Winchester’s new Centre for Parliament and Public Law, with a presentation highlighting the ongoing work of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in the area of data ethics and innovation.Please see website and flyer for details.
Twenty years after the Belfast Agreement 1998: A young person’s guide to the future
Date: 25 April 2018
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
Please see website for details.
Conflict prevention through societal integration: Insights into the work of the High Commissioner on National Minorities
Date: 26 April 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool
Speaker: High Commissioner on National Minorities Lamberto Zannier
Please see flyer for details.
Brexit and Labour Rights under Trade Agreements: Neoliberal populism at work?
Date: 26 April 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London
Speaker: Professor Joo-Cheong Tham, Melbourne Law School; Director of the Electoral Regulation Research Network
Please see website for details.
Expert Seminar on Gender and the Judiciary
Date: 27 April 2018
Venue: Ghent University, Belgium
Please see flyer for details.
EU Report on Fake News and Online Disinformation: Policy, law, and media responses
Date: 30 April 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London
Speakers: Professor Rasmus, Nielsen (University of Oxford; Director of Research, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism; Dr Dimitris Xenos, Lecturer in Law, University of Suffolk; Matthew Rogerson, Head of Public Policy at Guardian Media Group; Martin Rosenbaum, Executive Producer, BBC Political Programmes
Please see website for details.
Critical Conversation in Gender and Criminology Series Women as Victim-Offenders: Negotiating the paradox
Date: 30 April 2018
Venue: City, Univeristy of London
Organised by the Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network (British Society of Criminology), supported by Department of Sociology, City, University of London and the University of Essex. Please see website for details.
May
Are Advertisements Different from News? The legal making of press advertising in Britain, 1850-1914
Date: 1 May 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Speaker: Dr Anat Rosenberg, Radzyner School of Law, Israel; IALS Visiting Fellow
Please see website for details.
The Labour of Care: Work, law, and finance
Date: 1 May 2018
Venue: LSE, London
Please see website for details.
Re-imagining Family Law: The radical curriculum
Date: 1 May 2018
Venue: Birmingham Law School
Please see website for full details and registration.
Economic Evidence in Utilities Regulation: Delineating the boundaries of administrative discretion
Date: 2 May 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London
Speaker: Speaker: Dr Despoina Mantzari, University of Reading; IALS Visiting Fellow 2017
Please see website for details.
Social Justice in the Shadow of Grenfell
Date: 2 May 2018
Venue: Moot Court, Liberty Building, University of Leeds
Keynote speaker: Professor David Cowan
Please see website for details of this free event.
There's More to Life ... Work–Life Balance, the Value of the Arts, and Well-being
Date: 3 May 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Please see flyer and website for details.
Race and Surveillance: A one-day conference
Date: 21 April 2018
Venue: School of Law, Birkbeck, London
Please see website for details and booking.
Miscarriages of Justice
Date: 5 May 2018
Venue: Bush House, King's College London, Strand, London
Please see attachment and programme for details.
Frank Dawtry Memorial Annual Lecture 2018: Parole and prison controversies – what should happen now?
Date: 9 May 2018
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
Speaker: Professor Nick Hardwick
This is a British Academy of Forensic Sciences event. Please see website for details.
Postgraduate Alternative Dispute Resolution Conference
Date: 10 May 2018
Venue: Leicester Law School, University of Leicester
Theme: Looking to the Future and Beyond: New approaches to ADR
Please see flyer for details.
Criminal Law’s Role in Sustaining Civil Peace and Liberal Democracy
Date: 10 May 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Speaker: Professor Darryl Brown, O.M. Vicars Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; IALS Visiting Fellow
Please see website for details.
UBC Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Conference
Dates: 10–11 May 2018
Venue: Peter A Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Please see attachment for details.
The Sexual Contract
Dates: 10–11 May 2018
Venue: School of Law and Politics, Cardiff
Keynote speakers: Professor Carole Pateman, UCLA, and Professor Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota
Please see website and programme for details.
International Investment Law and NCD Prevention
Dates: 10–11 May 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool in London, Finsbury Square, London
Please see flyer for details.
How to get a PhD in Law: Day Three on researching, disseminating and publishing in the digital world
Date: 11 May 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Please see website for details.
Workers in the Modern Economy: Aspects of flexibility
Date: 11 May 2018
Venue: Kingston University
This it the Group for Employment Law and Policy's 8th annual conference. Please see flyer for details.
Infrastructures of Injustice: Law and conflict: call for papers
Date: 11 May 2018
Venue: St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge
This Cambridge workshop is part of the Cambridge-Singapore-Princeton Network workshop series. Call closes: 11 May 2018. Please see webpage for details.
The Usability of Weather Forecasts for UK Drought Management: Interdisciplinary explorations of skill, risk and regulation
Date: 15 May 2018
Venue: Manor Road Social Science Building, University of Oxford.
Speaker: Dr Sophie Haines, University of Oxford
This is a Regulation Discussion Group event. See attachment for details.
Embodied Gender/Sex Identity: What is it and how does it form?
Date: 16 May 2018
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
Speaker: Professor Anne Fausto Sterling, Brown University
This is the Centre for Law and Social Justice Annual Lecture 2018. Please see website for details.
Law and the Precarious Home: Socio-legal perspectives on the home in insecure times
Date: 17 May 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London
Chair: Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, IALS
Editors: Professor Helen Carr, Kent Law School; Professor Brendan Edgeworth, University of New South Wales; Professor Caroline Hunter, York Law School
Discussants: Emeritus Professor Alison Clarke, University of Surrey; Professor Professor David Cowan, University of Bristol Law School; Professor Becky Tunstall, University of York
This is the IALS Book Forum, co-hosted by Kent Law School. Please see website for details.
Dirty Money: New insights and emergent issues – PGR/ECR conference
Dates: 17–18 May 2018
Venue: Queen Mary University of London
Please see attachment for details.
Socio-Legal Sources and Methods in Family and Social Welfare Law: booking open
Date: 18 May 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Who should attend: This day is aimed at PhD/MPhil researchers, early career academics and policy researchers.
Speakers include: Prof Anne Barlow, Exeter University; Prof Helen Stalford, University of Liverpool; Prof Phil Fennell, Cardiff University; Jaime Lindsey, Essex University; Prof Rosie Harding, University of Birmingham; Dr Julie Doughty, Cardiff University; Jonathan Sims and Ben Hadley, British Library; Maria Bell, Law Librarian, London School of Economics
This event is organised jointly by the SLSA, IALS and the British Library. Please see website for details and booking.
Voice through Law: Navigating and negotiating Brexit as a resident EU citizen
Date: 18 May 2018
Venue: University of Liverpool in London Campus
Please see poster for details.
Placeless People: Writing, rights and refugees – John Coffin Memorial Annual Lecture
Date: 22 May 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Speaker: Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Modern Literature and History, School of History, University of East Anglia
Chair: Professor Philippe Sands QC, Professor of Law, Faculty of Laws, University College London
Hosted by: Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Please see website for details.
Regulating the Zika Virus
Date: 22 May 2018
Venue: Manor Road Social Science Building, University of Oxford.
Speaker: Professor Javier Lezaun, University of Oxford
This is a Regulation Discussion Group event. See attachment for details.
Joining the Circle: Capturing the zeitgeist of ‘big tech’ companies, social media speech and privacy,
Date: 23 May 2018
Venue: Inner Temple, London
One-day panel session organised by Professor Robin Barnes (Global Institute of Freedom and Awareness)and Peter Coe (Aston University). Please see invitation for details. Places are limited, so please book as soon as possible.
Implementing TEF: The updated teaching excellence and student outcomes framework in HE
Date: 23 May 2018
Venue: Central London
Please see website for details.
19th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law
Dates: 23–25 May 2018
Venue: Örebro University, Sweden
Please see attachment for details.
UK Association for European Law: An Introduction to our National Rapporteurs and their FIDE Reports
Dates: 23–26 May 2018
Venue: Estoril, Portugal
Please see flyer for details.
Rethinking Legal Education: Lord Upjohn Lecture by Professor William Twining
Date: 24 May 2018
Venue: City Law School, London
Please see flyer for details.
This is an Association of Law Teachers event.
Labour Market Policy and Labour Law Reform: tensions and Opportunities
Date: 25 May 2018
Venue: University of Warwick
Workshop organised jointly by Warwick Law School in conjunction with Warwick Business School and the Warwick Network CREW (Connecting Research on Work and Employment). Please see website for details and preliminary programme.
Regulating Illegal Wildlife Trade
Date: 29 May 2018
Venue: Manor Road Social Science Building, University of Oxford.
Speaker: Michael t’ Sas-Rolfes, University of Oxford
This is a Regulation Discussion Group event. See attachment for details.
Ways of Knowing: Epistemology and law
Date: 31 May 2018
Venue: University of Westminster, London
Hosted by The Westminster Law and Theory Lab in association with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London. Please see the website and preliminary programme (with abstracts) for details.
The Responsible Consumer in the Digital Age: International and Nordic perspectives on consumer financial protection
Dates: 31 May–1 June 2018
Venue: University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Please see website for details.
Refugee Protection in Restrictive Time: Challenges and ways forward – postgraduate conference
Date: 31 May 2018
Venue: Human Rights Centre, Queen's University Belfast
Please see facebook page for details.
June
Annual Socio-Legal Lecture: All Injuries are relational – individual legal consciousness reconsidered
Date: 4 June 2018
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Speaker: Professor David Engel, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, University at Buffalo School of Law, State University of New York
Please see website for details.
The Algorithmic Battle
Date: 4 June 2018
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle
Speakers: Professor Lilian Edwards, Chair of e-Governance, University of Strathclyde and Gianclaudio Malgieri, PhD Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Please see flyer for details.
Removing Safe Spaces: Terrorism, communication and international human rights
Date: 4 June 2018
Venue: Leeds Beckett University
Keynote: Lord Carlile of Berriew QC CBE
Please see website for details.
Police use of Body-Worn Cameras and the Prosecution of Domestic Abuse: Policy, practice and research
Date: 5 June 2018
Venue: Leeds University Business School
Please see website for details.
Hybrid Data Governance in the Cloud
Date: 5 June 2018
Venue: Manor Road Social Science Building, University of Oxford.
Speaker: Dr Asma Vranaki, Department of Law, University of Bristol
This is a Regulation Discussion Group event. See attachment for details.
Understanding Implicit Bias and Policing Conference
Dates: 4–5 June 2018
Venue: University of Sheffield
Hosted by the Centre for Criminological Research and the Law and Diversity Working Group of the University of Sheffield School of LawPlease see website for further details.
A Civilizing Moment? Reflecting on 150 years since the abolition of public execution
Date: 6 June 2018
Venue: Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle
Speakers: Dr James Gregory (University of Plymouth) and Dr Lizzie Seal (University of Sussex)
Please see flyer for details.
Neurolaw Workshop
Date: 6 June 2018
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
Please see attachment for details.
Joint Meeting of the LSA and CLSA
Dates: 7–10 June 2018
Venue: Toronto Canada
Please see website for details.
16th International Symposium of the World Society of Victimology
Dates: 10–14 June 2018
Venue: City University, Hong Kong
Please see website for details.
Brexit and EU Law: A way forward
Date: 11 June 2018
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
Keynote speaker: Dr Nikos Skoutaris
Please see webpage for details.
WG Hart Legal Workshop 2018: Building a 21st Century Bill of Rights
Dates: 11–12 June 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Please see attachment for details of call and confirmed speakers.
Access to Justice and Legal Services: call for papers and registration now open
Dates: 11–13 June 2018
Venue: University College London Faculty of Laws, Bentham House
Please see website for details.
Abolitionist Futures: Building social justice not criminal justice
Dates: 14–18 June 2018
Venue: Birkbeck, University of London
Please see website for details.
The Uses and Futures of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies
Date: 15 June 2018
Venue: University of Kent, Canterbury
Please see flyer for details.
The future of Europe after 2020: challenges and expectations
Date: 15 June 2018
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
Please see poster and call for details. Closing date: 30 April 2018.
Elder Law and its Discontents, Tel Aviv
Dates: 18–19 June 2018
Venue: Tel Aviv University, Israel
Please see flyer for details.
Women in Education 2018
Date: 20 June 2018
Venue: Central London
Please see website for details and registration.
Building Collaborations Locally: Applying a health justice partnerships model to law clinics
Date: 20 June 2018
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
Speaker: Dr Liz Curran, Australian National University
Please see website for details.
Symposium on Law, Compassion, Dignity, and Vulnerability
Date: 21 June 2018
Venue: Institute of Advance Legal Studies, London
Please see website for details.
Towards Gender Equality: Clashes in law
Date: 22 June 2018
Venue: School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex, Brighton
Please see flyer for details.
Children, Rights and Childhood: Expo and launch event 2018: call for research posters
Date: 22 June 2018
Venue: The Suites, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 4 May 2018.
Legal Education and Training Review: 5 years on, Leeds: 2nd call for papers
Date: 25 June 2018
Venue: Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University
Please see attachment for details. Call closes: 2 May 2018.
International Conference on Cultural and Global Criminology: Global issues, cultural perspectives
Dates: 27–29 June 2018
Venue: University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Please see website for details.
July
The Times and Temporality of International Human Rights Law
Date: 2 July 2018
Venue: School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
Keynote speaker: Professor Samuel Moyn, Yale University
Please see poster and website for further details. This event is supported by the SLSA via our Seminar Competition.
National Centre for Research Methods: Research methods festival 2018
Dates: 3–5 July 2018
Venue: University of Bath
Please see webpage for details.
gLAWcal Summer Institute
Date: 7 July–4 August 2018
Venue: Beijing, China
Please see attachment for details.
Post-Legislative Scrutiny
Date: 10 July 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Please see website for details.
August
The Impact of Law on Transnational Families' Staying, Moving and Settling: call for papers
Dates: 14–17 August 2018
Venue: European Association of Social Anthropologists conference, Stockholm University, Sweden
Please see website for details. Closing date: 9 June 2018.
September
21st Annual Dilemmas for Human Services International Research Conference
Date: 10–11 September 2018
Venue: University of Northampton
Please see website for details. Cl
RCSL and ISA Joint Meeting: Law and citizenship beyond the state
Dates: 10–13 September 2018
Venue: Lisbon, Portugal
Please see website for details.
African Studies Association UK Conference
Dates: 11–13 September 2018
Venue: University of Birmingham
Papers are invited for the African Feminist Judgments stream and the Customary Law and Legal Pluralism stream. Please see flyer and website for further details.
Affirmative Action and the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality
Dates: 22–23 September 2018
Venue: Tamil Nadu Law School,Tiruchirappalli, India
This event is organised in collaboration with Oxford Human Rights Hub, Oxford University. Please see website for details.
The Development of Abortion Rights in a Changing Europe
Date: 28 September 2018
Venue: Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
Please see flyer for details. Call extended until 25 April 2018.
October
IV CINETS Conference 2018: Mobility and security in an era of globalization – crimmigration at a crossroads?: call for papers
Dates: 5–6 October 2018
Venue: Queen Mary, University of London
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 30 June 2018.
Infrastructures of Injustice: Cambridge-Singapore-Princeton Network workshop series: call for papers
Dates: 26–27 October 2018
Venue: St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 11 May 2018.
November
ESRC Festival of Social Science, nationwide: call for applications
Dates: 3–10 November 2018
Venues: nationwide, but applications for events in Swindon, London and Wales are particluarly welcome
Please see website for details. Closing date: 1 June 2018.
December
LSAANZ Annual Conference: call for papers
Dates: 12–15 December 2018
Venue: Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia
Theme: Inclusion, exclusion and democracy
The SLSA and Canadian Law and Society Association are co-sponsors of this event. Please see website for details. The call for papers is now open. See flyer for details. Closing date: 6 July 2018.
2019
May
20th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law: call for papers
Dates: 23–25 May 2019
Venue: Instituto Jurídico da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra (UCILeR - University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research), Coimbra, Portugal
Theme: The limits of law
Please see flyer for details. Closing date: 15 January 2019.
2020
June
Genocide and Law: Communicating through visual arts and language: call for papers
Dates: 26–28 June 2020
Venue: Poznan, Poland
This is the 21st International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law and the 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics. Please see flyer for details. Closing date for abstracts: 28 February 2020.